I have acquired an M5015 that I am using for RAID5, and I'm planning on ordering one of the keys from ebay to get RAID6.
I'm wondering if there are any compelling reasons to flash to an LSI 9260, or if I should just keep it as an M5015? The card has an older IBM firmware, 12.12.0-0085, and I have the package to upgrade it to 12.13.0-0179 but I haven't done so yet.
What do you think? Keep it as an M5015 and upgrade to the latest firmware from IBM, or cross flash to LSI 9260? My use case is spinning 3TB SATA drives in RAID5 now and in RAID6 later when I receive the feature key.
I'm wondering if there are any compelling reasons to flash to an LSI 9260, or if I should just keep it as an M5015? The card has an older IBM firmware, 12.12.0-0085, and I have the package to upgrade it to 12.13.0-0179 but I haven't done so yet.
What do you think? Keep it as an M5015 and upgrade to the latest firmware from IBM, or cross flash to LSI 9260? My use case is spinning 3TB SATA drives in RAID5 now and in RAID6 later when I receive the feature key.